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Combustible

[kuhm-buhs-tuh-buhl]

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adjective

capable of catching fire and burning; inflammable; flammable: Gasoline vapor is highly combustible.

easily excited: a high-strung, combustible nature.

noun

a combustible substance: Trucks carrying combustibles will not be allowed to use this tunnel.

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Origin:
1520–30; < Late Latin combūstibilis. See combust, -ible

Related forms

com·bus·ti·bil·i·ty, com·bus·ti·ble·ness, noun

com·bus·ti·bly, adverb

un·com·bus·ti·ble, adjective

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Example Sentences

No federal workplace standard exists for combustible dust.

Sociologists spoke up during those controversies, but they have also criticized less obviously combustible genetic studies.

It is access to land that has always been the more combustible issue in this part of the world.

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No federal workplace standard exists for combustible dust.

Sociologists spoke up during those controversies, but they have also criticized less obviously combustible genetic studies.

It is access to land that has always been the more combustible issue in this part of the world.

El cohete entonces es sólo un tubo metálico inútil con un poco de combustible por dentro.

The majority of that used oil is collected and sold as a combustible fuel, mainly used in power plants or industrial boilers.

As long as you follow building codes regulating the distance that combustible materials must be from the firebox opening and.

Unrestricted dumping of waste by local industries, leaving the river clotted with oil and other combustible effluent, is blamed.

Magomedov to be the next president of the combustible southern republic.

Everywhere the complex mix of clans and sub-clans is combustible.

Un cohete que usa todo su combustible no puede explotar.

One tube carries combustible waste to a plant where it is burned to make heat and electricity.

These are designed so they can be installed in contact with combustible framing material.

It is combustible and can give off toxic fumes in the event of fire.

Reid bares her sagging flesh, combines aging desire and generational strife into a combustible mix.

The two cultures-of the ponytail and the suit-are a world apart, and combustible together.

The hydrogen is combustible and will burn as long as it remains within the radio frequency field.

We know that fumes of gasoline are far more efficiently combustible than liquid gasoline.

Whatever the case, the combustible mixture of air and coal dust ignited.

The holidays have always been an emotionally combustible time for families.

Otherwise, the consequences of mismanagement of such a combustible event would literally destroy our economy.

El combustible que lleva alcanza sólo para medio minuto.

Most explosives are not instantaneously combustible and require a detonator.

The city fire code requires combustible materials to be stored in fire-proof, covered recepticles.

The ceremonies ended with the participants igniting the combustible parts of the palace, temple, and brewery.

It was the fastest flame front of all known combustible substances in the table.

Siberia has always been animated by a frontier spirit, a combustible blend of danger and possibility.

Coal contains methane, a combustible and potent greenhouse gas.

Fights break out daily, the result of the combustible combination of mental illness and boredom.

Están buscando formas de convertir el maíz y otras plantas en combustible para los coches.

One man died when an industrial oven exploded after he was directed to use it to incinerate highly combustible paint.

Un cohete espacial puede usar su combustible sobrante.

McKay's abilities include the combustible anguish of anger and pride.

Dejaron comida y combustible para calefacción en cada una.

Zorrilla's combustible energy and still dazzling screen presence.

Deir al-Zour, knitted by the loyalties of extended clans, seems too combustible for the government to use repression.

The explosion came as two combustible liquids were being heated to create a yellow dye used to color.

Mahoney's attorneys argued that the bus was unsafe because of a vulnerable gas tank and combustible interior materials.

Actually, it is part of a combustible global protest that goes beyond the professional rabble-rousers.

There is seemingly no more combustible mix than high oil prices and a hotly contested election.

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World English Dictionary

combustible (kəmˈbʌstəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	capable of igniting and burning
2.	easily annoyed; excitable

—n
3.	a combustible substance

combusti'bility

—n

com'bustibleness

—n

com'bustibly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

combustible

1520s, from Fr. combustible, from L.L. combustibilis, from combustus, pp. of combuere (see combustion). Fig. sense is from 1640s; as a noun, from 1680s.

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Medical Dictionary

combustible com·bus·ti·ble (kəm-bŭs'tə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of igniting and burning. n.
A substance that ignites and burns readily.

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